Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-11-04
J. Q. A. Kennedy's Acceptance.
HE WHO WOULD ACCOMPLISH GOO
MUST MAKE HIMSELF A SACRIFICE

MUST MAKE HIMSELF a SAShiriCE-
BUTLER, OCTOBER 28.-The choice
of the Union Labor party for State
Treasurer accepts in the following
letter:
To T. p. Rynder, Chairman Union Labor
State Committee:
DEAR SIR-Your telegram official
" informing me OF my nomination
for State Treasurer by your commit
tee at Bradford, was duly received,
and would have received an imme-
diate answer, but for the reason that
| had forever withdrawn from the
political arena, so far as seeking or
desiring official promotion; but COM
ing as this nomination did. without
any solicitation or any knowledge on
my part, and from those representing
nv political opinions, demanded my
sincere consideration and respect;
and l could not decline their request,
although l would have preferred to
be knowr only as an humble private
in the ranks OF the Union Labor or
ganization of the nation. But we
must all be willing to work and sacrl-
fee something for the good OF the
suffering millions of our countrymen
and women. God heard the cries OF
the oppressed in Egypt, and ne took
them out with high hand, despoil-
ing their task masters.
When the Southern slave reached
out his hands and called for help and
deliverance from the free North they
refused; but He that said Thou
shalt not oppress the hireling in his
wages" heard their petition and an
swered it in blood and woe, and
broke their shackles with bombs and
bullets, and slavery died, and 1000,
600 of freemen sacrificed their lives
in that bloody conflict, that right and
Justice might live. The conflict has
only changed base. The capital that
owned the slave, is now seeking to
own labor in a new form; only in q
more extended and more cruel form.
These encroachments must be met
not with the bullet, but the ballot,
and if the producing classes OF this
country will stand as q unit the vic
tory is ours. If men knowing their
wrongs will not stand shoulder to
shoulder with those seeking the res
toration of their rights, let them be
slaves, but let us be free.
thank your committee and
through you the party you represent,
for the honor conferred on me, an
humble member of the Union Labor
party of the great State of Pennsyl.
vania, for the responsible and trust
worthy nomination for State Treas
urer. In the event of my election,
the money of the State will be sa.
credly guarded and freed from all
improper uses and precarious and
hazardous deposits or any invest
ments of q private character for spec
ulation. Truly Yours,
10. A. KENNEDY.
We find the above letter of accept
snce in the Pittsburg Dispatch of
Oct. 29, inst. and publish it out of re-
spect to a neighbor and citizen. as
well as to give our readers all going
on in o ur local and State politics at
present. The letter of Squire Ken
nedy is well written, but the objects
or aims of the Labor party are not
very fully or plainly made known in
it. The analogy made by the
Squire between the old slavery and
81 ayes of the South and the laborers
of the country at present to US seems
ra ther far fetched. To say that the
capital that owned the slaves "ls
now seeking to own labor in a new
form"w seem not to be tenable. But
all the efforts now being made to
raise the dignity of labor and secure 1t
in its rights will have o good ten
dency and we hope will lead to good
results, and that through peaceable
means and without the Intervention
of the bullet, as became necessary in
the case of slavery. All agitation on
all questions of reforms in society,
whether of temperance, of morals, of
politics or of labor, will in the end
produce good results. And there
fore all are ready at all times to bail
any movement or any Moses who
can lead in the effort to raise the
down trodden and oppressed or aid
the weak and poor in their efforts to
secure a fair chance and free and
open field to better their condition.
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